Microservices Contracts in the North East

Microservices
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East requiring Microservices skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Microservices over the 6 months leading up to 28 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 27 34
Rank change year-on-year +3 +7 -17
Contract jobs citing Microservices 12 11 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 3.88% 3.43% 4.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.90% 4.26% 4.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 13
10th Percentile £453 £367 £470
25th Percentile £458 £392 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £469 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.27% -10.71% -11.02%
75th Percentile £525 £551 £738
90th Percentile £593 £599 £757
England median daily rate £525 £550 £648
% change year-on-year -4.55% -15.12% +8.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 245 258 301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 79.29% 80.37% 90.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 113 224
10th Percentile £220 £263 £255
25th Percentile £359 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £541 £588 £625
90th Percentile £625 £650 £714
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 49 9
10th Percentile - £11.44 £16.85
25th Percentile £11.60 £12.13 £18.00
Median hourly rate £17.00 £19.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% -2.50% +23.61%
75th Percentile £19.97 £48.75 £33.75
90th Percentile £48.51 £69.00 £36.24
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.42
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.87% +45.72%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Microservices as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Microservices in the North East

Microservices
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Microservices in the North East.

Daily rate trend for Microservices in the North East

Microservices
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Microservices in the North East over the 6 months to 28 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Microservices in the North East

Microservices
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the North East region over the 6 months to 28 June 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tyne and Wear -1 11 £470 +0.27% 30
Durham - 1 - - 4
Microservices
England

Microservices
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 11 (91.67%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) Kong
3 2 (16.67%) GitHub
3 2 (16.67%) SaaS
3 2 (16.67%) Serverless
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (8.33%) Azure
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
2 5 (41.67%) MongoDB
2 5 (41.67%) NoSQL
3 4 (33.33%) MySQL
4 1 (8.33%) DocumentDB
4 1 (8.33%) Redis
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Git
1 5 (41.67%) GitLab
1 5 (41.67%) SonarQube
2 4 (33.33%) Artifactory
2 4 (33.33%) gulp
2 4 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 4 (33.33%) Maven
2 4 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (16.67%) Postman
4 1 (8.33%) Appium
4 1 (8.33%) JIRA
4 1 (8.33%) Selenium
General
1 8 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Developer
2 6 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Chief Technology Officer
4 1 (8.33%) Designer
4 1 (8.33%) Developer in Test
4 1 (8.33%) Head of Engineering
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Security Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Security Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Software Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Solutions Designer
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) React
2 5 (41.67%) Kafka
2 5 (41.67%) Node.js
2 5 (41.67%) Spring Boot
3 4 (33.33%) AngularJS
3 4 (33.33%) Apache CXF
3 4 (33.33%) Dropwizard
3 4 (33.33%) Express.js
3 4 (33.33%) Hibernate
3 4 (33.33%) JAX-RS
3 4 (33.33%) MEAN Stack
3 4 (33.33%) MERN Stack
3 4 (33.33%) Mongoose
3 4 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (33.33%) Sequelize
3 4 (33.33%) Spring
4 2 (16.67%) OpenAPI
4 2 (16.67%) REST
4 2 (16.67%) Swagger
5 1 (8.33%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Educational Technology
1 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 4 (33.33%) Event-Driven
2 4 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 4 (33.33%) Open Source
2 4 (33.33%) Operational Stability
3 3 (25.00%) Agile
4 2 (16.67%) DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) Security Architecture
4 2 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
4 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
4 2 (16.67%) Unit Testing
5 1 (8.33%) Coaching
5 1 (8.33%) Computer Science
5 1 (8.33%) Data Architecture
5 1 (8.33%) Functional Programming
5 1 (8.33%) Functional Testing
5 1 (8.33%) Integration Testing
5 1 (8.33%) Non-Functional Testing
5 1 (8.33%) TDD
5 1 (8.33%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Java
2 5 (41.67%) JavaScript
3 4 (33.33%) SQL
4 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 1 (8.33%) COBOL
5 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (8.33%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (8.33%) NCSC
2 1 (8.33%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes